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  1. WWSCOUTUSDO on EU Court of Justice Paves Way For "Right To Be Forgotten" Online · · Score: 1

    Safe to say that corporations now have the same inalienable rights to removing incriminating evidence?

  2. Re:Aaron Swartz was charged for scraping content. on McAfee Grabbed Data Without Paying, Says Open Source Vulnerability Database · · Score: 2

    The big difference between Swartz and McAffee is that Swartz's motive was for what he believed to be in the public interest. McAffee's motive is for profit.

    And since step 3 is profit, we all know that it's perfectly legal. And if not, endless litigation followed by a small fine will serve!

  3. Re:Give up the keys on Ask Slashdot: Intelligently Moving From IT Into Management? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you can't trust your sysadmin, you shouldn't have hired them in the first place. Anybody capable of doing the job, with a reasonable background, should be given the opportunity to show their mettle without being arbitrarily restrained.

    Keep your own administrative access, but since you were barely qualified to be a sysadmin in the first place, just learn to let go. The organization will be better for it while you move back into finance where you belong.

    Colonel Meyers: Are you new to the infantry, Major?
    Maj. Malcolm A. Powers: Yes, sir. Just came over from supply.
    Colonel Meyers: Were you good at that?
    Maj. Malcolm A. Powers: Yes, sir!
    Colonel Meyers: Well then, stick to it because you're a walking cluster fuck as an infantry officer. My men are hard chargers, Major! Leutenant Ring and Gunny Highway took a handfull of young fire pissers, exercised some personal initiative and kicked ass!

  4. We are tools on Verizon and New Jersey Agree 4G Service Equivalent to Broadband Internet · · Score: 1

    1. Deregulate
    2. ...
    3. Profit!

  5. Re:Old phone cords? on New Shape Born From Rubber Bands · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, it's a new shape, dammit!

    I have also invented several new shapes. One of them, I draw part of a circle, and then it turns into a squiggly line for a while, and then a quarter of a square, followed by a third of an asymptote. Another time, I drew 3 squiggly lines connected to a 4th line that was almost straight but still a little squiggly. I call it a squiggle-square.

    By the Gods boy, where are your patents?

  6. Sorry for lame joke but on VK CEO Fired, Says Company Under Kremlin Control · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, status updates you!

  7. Plan B on Investors Value Yahoo's Core Business At Less Than $0 · · Score: 2

    1. You sell me Core Yahoo for .01
    2. I call Google, Microsoft, and some other loonies.
    3. Profit

    P.S. I reinvest line 3 into a new company called Mauls where we make solar self-actuating molar embedded mice that navigate as you chatter. Start over at line 2....

  8. More than a decade ago... on Akamai Reissues All SSL Certificates After Admitting Heartbleed Patch Was Faulty · · Score: 1

    More than a decade ago, Akamai modified parts of OpenSSL it felt were weak related to key storage

    Now that's insight!

  9. "It's Not a Tumor" - Oh Wait, It Is on Theo De Raadt's Small Rant On OpenSSL · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This could get a lot more ugly...

    Once upon a time, SSL certificates were signed against a single root certificate, each SSL cert issuer had a single root certificate authority for each of its product lines. Now all corps issue an SSL certificate that is signed against and INTERMEDIATE certificate, which in turn is signed against the root certificate.

    What happens if a provider's server has this exploit and the intermediate certificate is compromised? EVERY certificate signed against that intermediate must be revoked. Or put another way, the ENTIRE PRODUCT LINE must be tossed into the garbage and all certs reissued.

    So if Verisign or Thawte discover new their intermediate certificate MIGHT have been exploited, would they say anything? The servers implementing those certs are in the hands of a select few - it would be easy to hide the possibility they might have been compromised.

  10. Re:What the French call la dolce vita? on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    Isn't that Italian?

    It's even better than you think. La Dolce Vita is a Federico Fellini film and not necessarily an Italian expression, let alone French. Even the link provided points to the Wikipedia entry for the film.

  11. Re:Corporations are not people on Hewlett-Packard Admits To International Bribery and Money Laundering Schemes · · Score: 1

    Most of this happened longer than 5 years ago under different leadership. HP is still suffering from the mistakes of the past. HP was financially successful then but at a cost. This is the way people like Mark Hurd do business. Its all about short term gains. Being told your pay was being cut because of difficult times and it was necessary in order to survive, only to find out that 6 months later HP had record profits. That's why all the top performer's no longer work there.

    So again, saw it coming

  12. Re:Corporations are not people on Hewlett-Packard Admits To International Bribery and Money Laundering Schemes · · Score: 1

    Corporations are not people. They don't make decisions. Executives make decisions.

    Lock the bastards up.

    Hate to put it this way but considering the way HP has been failing so badly the past 5 years... saw it coming

  13. Re:Freedom of Speech? on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    Porn is not speech any more.

    Tell that to Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Farrah Abraham or any other of our very famous revenge porn stars with their sex tapes custom-built for the teenage audience.

    Where would any of these sluts be if it wasn't for their 'revenge porn' boyfriends? Oh right, sucking **** just as depicted. Okay yes I agree let's make these awful things federal offenses. Can we prosecute the whores who star in them too? Please?

  14. Re:it's true on An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video) · · Score: 1

    I am simply agreeing with the article/video. I don't advertise, not even my real name, so bite me you lukewarm troll magnet.

  15. it's true on An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Almost every failing of a computer can be related to where the OS sits. I have replaced/installed over 50 new/used computer platters with SSDs as the primary and a platter as the storage. Not only does boot time vanish, but just about everything under the sun is improved. I could ramble on but I think that's what the video does. Basically it's just smarter regardless of whether you use Win/Mac/Linux etc.

  16. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. on MtGox Finds 200,000 Bitcoins In Old Wallet · · Score: 1

    Probably... they were 'magically discovered' when it became clear to Mark that the authorities might be contemplating criminal charges against him.

    Or when it seemed obvious the rest of the world had hacked the sh$t out off his life and he was going to be terminated by the next silk road assassin within weeks.

  17. Re:Not the only reason..... on Why Buy Microsoft Milk When the Google Cow Is Free? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Should schools pay for M$ or take Google's privacy invasive stuff free or is there a third choice. Should the federal provide free open source software under federal core program. Software that is free, has been audited for quality and security, software that is free of privacy invasive elements during and after school use. If all the money spent on software licence had instead been spent on developing software, the government would have produced the necessary software ten times over and been able to distribute for free instead of still paying to this day. Niether M$ nor Google is the answer, they just both keep the problem going, year after year after year, instead of permanently solving the problem with something like https://www.libreoffice.org/.

    Dude, stop making sense.

  18. Re:Two Possibilities on Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast · · Score: 1

    2) Comcast doesn't have an entry in it's DNS servers for the site because it is a Chinese domain that looks like spam that no customer of theirs has tried to access before now.

    And as soon as you make a query to this brand new domain, Comcast is supposed to query the IANA's root-servers to get the data. So your point 2) is a fallacy. Otherwise every time someone buys a new domain, Comcast has to wait for everyone in the world to visit it first?

  19. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 5, Informative

    Downside : a normal coffee brew process generates 6-12 cups of Joe.

    I guess we could all switch to a press ... but that's a bit messy and requires a stand alone heating method (I've not the space to keep a proper tea kettle on my office desk)

    Keurig provides a clean single-cup solution

    Are you on crack? We boil water in an electric kettle in 2.5 minutes, then pour into a press, and blammo, coffee. Keurig provides stupid, bland, watery goop that doesn't leave you with a bunch of grinds to clean up. However, it is neither greener, nor more efficient or even easier really.

  20. Re:Really? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 2, Funny

    How much "game-changing functionality" can you really work into a fucking coffee machine?

    It turns into a coffee fucking machine. See how I did that?

  21. Senator Joe McCarthy would tell you... on Why We Need To Teach Hacking In High School · · Score: 1

    Hacker = terrorist

  22. Re:Is MtGox Bitcoin? on Mt. Gox Shuts Down: Collapse Should Come As No Surprise · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, in a rigged market, the price is controlled and doesn't drop on very bad news. You can contrast that with a free market like housing which took a drop after Lehman shut down.

    Those two objects are not correlated. The housing market collapsed because of bad debt that was loaded into paper held by banks, and Lehman happened to have some of the paper too. Note that Lehman was allowed to collapse because the impact to the housing market was a non-event. The impact to the US as a whole, and the housing market secondarily, by the bankruptcy of all solvent banks was much greater. And so we entered into a time when the government took a stake in the stock market and financial institutions.

    MT and BTC are the same scenario, luckily the US Govt has not stepped in yet. Which means the market is actually free.

  23. Re:Is MtGox Bitcoin? on Mt. Gox Shuts Down: Collapse Should Come As No Surprise · · Score: 2

    Here we have a large brokerage that shuts down, but changes in the value of bitcoin are largely unaffected except temporarily by the news, and everything remains stable despite a large market share being removed from the market. How will this change when users gain access to their accounts and finally settle at a loss is unknown. But the value of the underlying currency is both an interesting sounding board for this type of data, and in terms of technical chart analysis, an interesting point of stability. FWIW.

  24. Re:Vive le Galt! on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    We was all Goxxed for the last time!

  25. Re:get in line on Elon Musk Talks Tesla, Apple, Model X · · Score: 0

    Buy your iTesla today!

    The way things are going, there might be a TeslaPad first.